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Lyrical Abstraction

Lyrical Abstraction refers to two related but distinctly separate movements in Post-war Modernist painting.European Lyrical Abstraction is an art movement born in Paris after World War II....
 refers to two related but distinctly separate movements in Post-war
Post-war

A post-war period is the interval immediately following the beginning of a war and enduring as long as war does not resume. A post-war period can become an interwar period or interbellum when a war between the same parties resumes at a later date ....
 Modernist painting. European Lyrical Abstraction
Lyrical Abstraction

Lyrical Abstraction refers to two related but distinctly separate movements in Post-war Modernist painting.European Lyrical Abstraction is an art movement born in Paris after World War II....
 is an art movement
Art movement

An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, or, at least, with the heyday of the movement more or less strictly so restricted ....
 born in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 after World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
. At that time, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 was trying to reconstruct its identity devastated by the Occupation
Military occupation

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 and Collaboration
Collaboration

Collaboration is a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work together toward an intersection of common goals ? for example, an intellectual endeavor that is creative in nature?by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus....
.






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Norman Bluhm Untitled (1984)
Lyrical Abstraction
Lyrical Abstraction

Lyrical Abstraction refers to two related but distinctly separate movements in Post-war Modernist painting.European Lyrical Abstraction is an art movement born in Paris after World War II....
 refers to two related but distinctly separate movements in Post-war
Post-war

A post-war period is the interval immediately following the beginning of a war and enduring as long as war does not resume. A post-war period can become an interwar period or interbellum when a war between the same parties resumes at a later date ....
 Modernist painting. European Lyrical Abstraction
Lyrical Abstraction

Lyrical Abstraction refers to two related but distinctly separate movements in Post-war Modernist painting.European Lyrical Abstraction is an art movement born in Paris after World War II....
 is an art movement
Art movement

An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, or, at least, with the heyday of the movement more or less strictly so restricted ....
 born in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 after World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
. At that time, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 was trying to reconstruct its identity devastated by the Occupation
Military occupation

Belligerent military occupation occurs when the control and authority over a territory passes to a belligerent....
 and Collaboration
Collaboration

Collaboration is a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work together toward an intersection of common goals ? for example, an intellectual endeavor that is creative in nature?by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus....
. Some art critics looked at the new abstraction as an attempt to try to restore the image of artistic Paris, which had held the rank of capital of the arts until the war. It is possible that lyrical abstraction also represented a competition between Paris and the new American school of painting, Abstract Expressionism
Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
, based in New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
 and represented by Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock

Paul Jackson Pollock was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionism movement. In October 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner....
, Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning

Willem de Kooning was an abstract expressionist artist, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.In the post-World War II era, de Kooning painted in a style that came to be referred to variously as Abstract expressionism, Action painting, and the New York School....
 and many others. It could thus be seen as the School of Paris
School of Paris

School of Paris refers to two distinct groups of artists ? a group of medieval Illuminated manuscript, and a group of non-French artists working in Paris before World War I....
 versus the New York School
New York School

The New York School was an informal group of American poets, Paintings, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s, 1960s in New York City. The poets, painters, composers, dancers, and musicians often drew inspiration from Surrealism and the contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular action painting, abstract expressionism, Jazz...
.

Lyrical abstraction was opposed not only to Cubist and Surrealist movements that preceded it, but also to geometric abstraction (or "cold abstraction"). Lyrical abstraction was in some ways the first to apply the lessons of Kandinsky, considered one of the fathers of abstraction. For the artists in France, lyrical abstraction represented an opening to personal expression.

Many exhibitions were held in Paris for example at the Drouin gallery where one could see Jean Le Moal
Jean Le Moal

Jean Le Moal was a France Painting of the School of Paris, designer of stained glass windows, and and one of the founder members of the Salon de Mai....
, Gustave Singier
Gustave Singier

Gustave Singier was a Belgian abstract art painter active in France as part of the new Paris School of Lyrical Abstraction and the Salon de Mai. He is buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery....
, Alfred Manessier
Alfred Manessier

Alfred Manessier was a abstract art French painter and part of the new Paris School and the Salon de Mai. Part of the Association of Revolutionary Writers and Artists during the 1930s, his works include a 1976 stained glass window at Saint-B?nigne church in Pontarlier along with paintings now in the Collection of Modern Religious Art, Vatic...
, Roger Bissière, Wols and others. A wind blew over the capital when Georges Mathieu
Georges Mathieu

Georges Mathieu is a French painter in the style of Tachism....
 decided to hold two exhibitions: "Abstraction Lyrique" at the Palais du Luxembourg in 1947 and then "HWPSMTB" (Hans Hartung
Hans Hartung

Hans Hartung was a Germans-French people painter, known for his gestural abstract art style. He was also a decorated World War II veteran of the French Foreign Legion....
, Wols
Wols

Wols, was the pseudonym of Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze , a German Painting and photographer predominantly active in France.Noted for his etchings and for his use of stains of color dabbed onto the canvas , Wols pioneered a new style of expressive abstraction....
, Francis Picabia
Francis Picabia

Francis Picabia was a well-known painter and poet born of a France mother and a Spain father who was an attach? at the Cuban legation in Paris, France....
, the sculptor Francis Stahly, Georges Mathieu, Michel Tapié
Michel Tapié

Michel Tapi? was an internationally active France Art critic, curator, and art collector of art. He was an early and influential Art theory and practitioner of "tachisme", which is generally regarded as the European equivalent of abstract expressionism....
 and Camille Bryen) in 1948. It was, however, a fairly short reign (late 1957), which was quickly supplanted by the New Realism
New realism

Nouveau R?alisme refers to an artistic movement founded in 1960 by the art critic Pierre Restany and the painter Yves Klein during the first collective exposition in the Apollinaire gallery in Milan....
 of Pierre Restany
Pierre Restany

Pierre Restany , was an internationally well known French art critic and cultural philosopher.Restany was born in Am?lie-les-Bains-Palalda and spent his childhood in Casablanca....
 and Yves Klein
Yves Klein

Yves Klein was a French artist and is considered an important figure in post-war European art. New York critics of Klein's time classify him as neo-Dada, but other critics, such as Thomas McEvilley in an essay submitted to Artforum in 1982, have since classified Klein as an early, though "enigmatic," Post-Modernist....
.

European artists who painted in the manner of lyrical abstraction (1945–1956) and beyond
  • Jean René Bazaine
    Jean René Bazaine

    Jean Ren? Bazaine was a French Painting, designer of stained glass windows, and writer. He was the great great grandson of the English Court portraitist George Hayter....
     (1904–2001)
  • Roger Bissière (1888–1964)
  • Camille Bryen (1902 – 1977)
  • Olivier Debre (1920–1999)
  • Jean Dubuffet
    Jean Dubuffet

    Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet was one of the most famous France Paintings and sculpture of the second half of the 20th century....
     (1901-1985)
  • Jean Fautrier
    Jean Fautrier

    Jean Fautrier was a French painter and sculptor. He was one of the most important practitioners of Tachisme.He was born in Paris and studied in London at the Royal Academy of Art and the Slade School....
     (1898–1964)
  • Pierre Fichet (1927 - )
  • Oscar Gauthier (1921 - )
  • Annick Gendron
    Annick Gendron

    Annick Gendron is a french abstract painter, ....
     (1939 - )
  • Hans Hartung
    Hans Hartung

    Hans Hartung was a Germans-French people painter, known for his gestural abstract art style. He was also a decorated World War II veteran of the French Foreign Legion....
     (1904–1989)
  • Alfred Manessier (1911–1993)
  • Georges Mathieu
    Georges Mathieu

    Georges Mathieu is a French painter in the style of Tachism....
     (1921 - )
  • Francis Picabia
    Francis Picabia

    Francis Picabia was a well-known painter and poet born of a France mother and a Spain father who was an attach? at the Cuban legation in Paris, France....
     (1879–1953)
  • Serge Poliakoff
    Serge Poliakoff

    Serge Poliakoff was a Russian-born French modernist Painting belonging to the 'New' Ecole de Paris....
     (1900–1969)
  • Gustave Singier (1909–1984)
  • Pierre Soulages
    Pierre Soulages

    Pierre Soulages is a France painter, engraver and sculptor.Born in Rodez in 1919, Soulages is also known as "the painter of black" because of his interest in the colour ....
     (1919 - )
  • Nicolas de Staël
    Nicolas de Staël

    Nicolas de Sta?l was a painter known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly Abstract art landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration and textiles....
     (1914–1955)
  • Michel Tapié
    Michel Tapié

    Michel Tapi? was an internationally active France Art critic, curator, and art collector of art. He was an early and influential Art theory and practitioner of "tachisme", which is generally regarded as the European equivalent of abstract expressionism....
     (1909–1987)
  • Wols
    Wols

    Wols, was the pseudonym of Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze , a German Painting and photographer predominantly active in France.Noted for his etchings and for his use of stains of color dabbed onto the canvas , Wols pioneered a new style of expressive abstraction....
     pseudonym of Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze (1913–1951)
  • Zao Wou Ki
    Zao Wou Ki

    Zao Wou-Ki is a China-France Painting....
     (1921 - )


An exhibition entitled The soaring lyrical, Paris 1945-1956, bringing together the works of 60 painters, was presented in Paris at the Musée du Luxembourg from April to August 2006.

Lyrical Abstraction in America
United States

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Lyrical Abstraction is an American abstract art
Abstract art

Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world....
 movement that emerged in New York City
New York City

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, Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

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, Washington, DC, and then Toronto
Toronto

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 and London
London

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 during the 1960s - 1970s. Characterized by intuitive and loose paint handling, spontaneous expression, illusionist space, acrylic staining, process, occasional imagery, and other painterly and newer technological techniques. Lyrical Abstraction led the way away from minimalism
Minimalism

Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and Minimalist music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features....
 in painting and toward a new freer expressionism
Expressionism

Expressionism is the tendency of an artist to distort reality for an emotional effect; it is a subjective art form. Expressionism is exhibited in many art forms, including painting, literature, theatre, film, Expressionist architecture and Expressionism ....
. Painters who directly reacted against the predominating Formalist, Minimalist, and Pop Art
Pop art

Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in UK and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of Fine Art since Pop removes the material from its context and isolates...
 and Geometric abstraction styles of the 1960s, turned to new, experimental, loose, painterly, expressive, pictorial and abstract painting styles. Many of them had been Minimalists, working with various monochromatic, geometric styles, and whose paintings publicly evolved into new abstract painterly motifs. American Lyrical Abstraction is related in spirit to Abstract Expressionism
Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
, Color Field painting and Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an Tachisme
Tachisme

Tachisme was a France style of abstract painting in the 1940s and 1950s. It is often considered to be the European equivalent to abstract expressionism....
 of the 1940s and 1950s as well. Tachisme
Tachisme

Tachisme was a France style of abstract painting in the 1940s and 1950s. It is often considered to be the European equivalent to abstract expressionism....
 refers to the French style of abstract painting current in the 1945–1960 period. Very close to Art Informel, it presents the European equivalent to Abstract Expressionism
Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
.

Context

Lyrical Abstraction is a term that was originally coined by Larry Aldrich (the founder of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield Connecticut) in 1969 to describe what Aldrich said he saw in the studios of many artists at that time. It is also the name of an exhibition that originated in the Aldrich Museum and traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", harbors one of the most important Collection of 20th century United States art....
 and other museums throughout the United States between 1969 and 1971. For many years the term Lyrical Abstraction was a pejorative, which unfortunately adversely affected those artists whose works were associated with that name. In 1989 Union College
Union College

Union College is a private, non-denominational Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Schenectady, New York. In 1795, Union became the first college chartered by the Regents of the State of New York....
 art history professor, the late Daniel Robbins correctly observed that Lyrical Abstraction was the term used in the late sixties to describe the return to painterly expressivity by painters all over the country and "consequently", Robbins said, "the term should be used today because it has historical credibility"

Between 1960 and 1970 Abstract Expressionism
Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
 had waned, emerging directions such as Formalism
Formalism (art)

In history of art, formalism is the concept that a work of art's artistic merit is entirely determined by its form--the way it is made, its purely visual aspects, and its medium....
, Color Field
Color Field

Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. Inspired by European modernism and closely related to Abstract Expressionism with many of its important early proponents being among the pioneering Abstract Expressionists....
 painting, Fluxus
Fluxus

Fluxus?a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"?is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s....
, Happenings, Minimalism
Minimalism

Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and Minimalist music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features....
, Pop Art
Pop art

Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in UK and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of Fine Art since Pop removes the material from its context and isolates...
, and Op art
Op art

Op art, also known as optical art, is a genre of visual art, especially painting, that makes use of optical illusions."Optical Art is a method of painting concerning the interaction between illusion and picture plane, between understanding and seeing." Op art works are abstract, with many of the better known pieces made in only blac...
 had decidedly swerved the focus of the avant-garde
Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
 away from subjective expressionism toward a more objective geometric precision and socio-political theatricality, commentary and observation. During the mid-1960s American painting was declared dead by various critics including Minimalist sculptor/critic Donald Judd
Donald Judd

Donald Clarence Judd was a Minimalism artist . In his work, Judd sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy....
 citing three-dimensional, volumetric objects as the embodiment of visual truth. Pictorial illusionism as it appears in painting - which is flat and merely depicts space, was described as deceptive and outdated, in a European old-fashioned way. Formalist arguments generally put forth in the name of Clement Greenberg
Clement Greenberg

Clement Greenberg was an influential United States art critic closely associated with Modern art in the United States. In particular, he militant critic the Abstract Expressionism movement and was among the first critics to praise the work of painter Jackson Pollock....
 seemed dated and outmoded and missed the point of new painting being made after the mid-1960s altogether.
Lyrical Abstraction in the late 1960s and early 1970s in America
Lyrical Abstraction in America, according to John I. H. Baur, curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", harbors one of the most important Collection of 20th century United States art....
, NY was a trend
Trend

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 during the sixties and early seventies. It was represented by a circulating exhibition which commenced at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield
Ridgefield

Ridgefield may refer to:...
, Connecticut
Connecticut

Connecticut is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. The state borders New York to the west and south , Massachusetts to the north, and Rhode Island to the east....
 from April 5 through June 7, 1970, and continued to the Civic Center Museum Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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 and the Phoenix Art Museum
Phoenix art museum

Phoenix Art Museum is the largest and primary institution of visual art in the Southwestern United States. Located in Phoenix, Arizona, the museum's collections trace their origins back to 1912 when the Phoenix Woman?s Club and Arizona State Fair Committee decided to develop a fine arts program....
 in Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix is the capital and largest city in the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the fifth most populous city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,552,259 residents, and is the anchor of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area with 4,179,427 residents....
. The circulating exhibition ended at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, May 25 through July 6, 1971. The exhibition was proposed by Larry Aldrich, collector and founder of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Mr. Aldrich defined the trend of Lyrical Abstraction and explained how he came to acquire the works. In his "Statement of the Exhibition" he wrote,
"Early last season, it became apparent that in painting there was a movement away from the geometric, hard-edge, and minimal, toward more lyrical, sensuous, romantic abstractions in colors which were softer and more vibrant...As I researched this lyrical trend, I found many young artists whose paintings appealed to me...The majority of the paintings in the Lyrical Abstraction exhibition were created in 1969 and all are a part of my collection now."
Larry Aldrich donated the paintings from the exhibition to the Whitney Museum of American Art. According to Aldrich:

The artist’s touch is always visible in this type of painting, even when the paintings are done with spray guns, sponges or other objects. ,

Participants in the Lyrical Abstraction exhibition, 1970-1971

  • Helene Aylon
    Helene Aylon

    Helene Aylon is an United States artist and ecofeminist known for taking Hebrew language and English language versions of the Torah and turning them into installation sculpture....
    , (1931 - )
  • Victoria Barr, (1937 - )
  • James Beres, (1942 - )
  • Jake Berthot, (1939 - )
  • Dan Christensen
    Dan Christensen

    Dan Christensen, the United States abstract painter, was born in Cozad, Nebraska on October 6, 1942, he died in Easthampton, New York on January 20, 2007....
    , (1942 – 2007)
  • David William Cummings, (1937 - )
  • Carl Gliko, ( 1941-)
  • John Adams Griefen, (1942 - )
  • Carol Haerer, (1933 – 2002)
  • Gary Hudson
    Gary Hudson

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    , (1936 - )
  • Don Kaufman, (1935 - )
  • Jane A. Kaufman, (1938 - )
  • Victor Kord, (1935 - )
  • Ronnie Landfield
    Ronnie Landfield

    Ronnie Landfield is an United States abstract painter. During his early career from the mid-1960s through the 1970s his paintings were associated with Lyrical Abstraction , and he was represented by the David Whitney Gallery and the Andre Emmerich Gallery....
    , (1947 - )
  • Pat Lipsky
    Pat Lipsky

    Pat Lipsky is an American painter associated with Lyrical Abstraction, Color Field, and Geometric abstraction....
    , (1941 - )
  • Ralph Sessions Moseley, (1941 - )
  • David Paul, (1945 - ) only in 1970
  • Herbert Perr, (1941 - )
  • William Pettet, (1942 - )
  • Murray Reich, (1932 - )
  • Garry Lorence Rich, (1943 - )
  • Ken L. Showell, (1939 – 1997)
  • John Seery
    John Seery

    John Seery is an American artist who is associated with the Lyrical Abstraction movement. He was born in Maspeth, New York, was raised in Flushing, Queens and as a teen, moved to Cincinnati, Ohio....
    , (1941- )
  • Alan Siegel, (1938 - )
  • Lawrence Stafford, (1038 - )
  • William Staples, (1934 - )
  • James Sullivan (artist), (1939 - )
  • Herbert Schiffrin, (1944 - )
  • Shirlann Smith, (1931 - )
  • John Francis Torreano, (1941 - )
  • Jeff Way, (1942 - )
  • Thornton Willis, (1938 - )
  • Philip Wofford, (1935 - )
  • Robert Zakanych, (1935 - )


History

Lyrical Abstraction along with the Fluxus
Fluxus

Fluxus?a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"?is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s....
 movement and Postminimalism
Postminimalism

Postminimalism is a term utilized in various artistic fields for work which is influenced by, or attempts to develop and go beyond, the aesthetic of minimalism....
 (a term first coined by Robert Pincus-Witten in the pages of Artforum
Artforum

Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art....
 in 1969) sought to expand the boundaries of abstract painting and Minimalism by focusing on process, new materials and new ways of expression. Postminimalism
Postminimalism

Postminimalism is a term utilized in various artistic fields for work which is influenced by, or attempts to develop and go beyond, the aesthetic of minimalism....
 often incorporating industrial materials, raw materials, fabrications, found objects, installation, serial repetition, and often with references to Dada
Dada

Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Z?rich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature?poetry, art manifestoes, aesthetics?theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art...
 and Surrealism
Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early-1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
 is best exemplified in the sculptures of Eva Hesse
Eva Hesse

Eva Hesse , was a Germany United States sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. ...
. Lyrical Abstraction, Conceptual Art
Conceptual art

Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional Aesthetics and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called Installation art, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions....
, Postminimalism
Postminimalism

Postminimalism is a term utilized in various artistic fields for work which is influenced by, or attempts to develop and go beyond, the aesthetic of minimalism....
, Earth Art, Video
Video

Video is the technology of electronics Videography, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing Scene in motion....
, Performance art
Performance art

Performance art is art in which the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work. It can happen anywhere, at any time, or for any length of time....
, Installation art
Installation art

Installation art is the use of sculptural materials and other interesting material to transform a space or, argueably, an area. Installation art is not necessarily confined to gallery spaces and can be any material intervention in everyday public or private spaces....
, along with the continuation of Fluxus
Fluxus

Fluxus?a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"?is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s....
, Abstract Expressionism
Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
, Color Field
Color Field

Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. Inspired by European modernism and closely related to Abstract Expressionism with many of its important early proponents being among the pioneering Abstract Expressionists....
 Painting
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
, Hard-edge painting
Hard-edge painting

Hard-edge painting is painting in which abrupt transitions are found between color areas. Color areas are often of one unvarying color. Color transitions often take place along straight lines, though curvilinear edges of color areas are also common....
, Minimal Art, Op art
Op art

Op art, also known as optical art, is a genre of visual art, especially painting, that makes use of optical illusions."Optical Art is a method of painting concerning the interaction between illusion and picture plane, between understanding and seeing." Op art works are abstract, with many of the better known pieces made in only blac...
, Pop Art
Pop art

Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in UK and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of Fine Art since Pop removes the material from its context and isolates...
, Photorealism
Photorealism

Photorealism is the genre of painting based on making a painting of a photograph. The term is primarily applied to paintings from the United States photorealism art movement that began in the late 1960s, early 1970s....
 and New Realism
New realism

Nouveau R?alisme refers to an artistic movement founded in 1960 by the art critic Pierre Restany and the painter Yves Klein during the first collective exposition in the Apollinaire gallery in Milan....
 extended the boundaries of Contemporary Art
Contemporary art

Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced since World War II....
 in the mid-1960s through the 1970s. Lyrical Abstraction is a type of freewheeling abstract painting that emerged in the mid-1960s when abstract painters returned to various forms of painterly, pictorial, expressionism with a predominate focus on process, gestalt and repetitive compositional strategies in general. Characterized by an overall gestalt, consistent surface tension, sometimes even the hiding of brushstrokes, and an overt avoidance of relational composition. It developed as did Postminimalism
Postminimalism

Postminimalism is a term utilized in various artistic fields for work which is influenced by, or attempts to develop and go beyond, the aesthetic of minimalism....
 as an alternative to strict Formalist
Formalism (art)

In history of art, formalism is the concept that a work of art's artistic merit is entirely determined by its form--the way it is made, its purely visual aspects, and its medium....
 and Minimalist doctrine.

Lyrical Abstraction shares similarities with Color Field
Color Field

Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. Inspired by European modernism and closely related to Abstract Expressionism with many of its important early proponents being among the pioneering Abstract Expressionists....
 Painting
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
 and Abstract Expressionism
Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
 especially in the freewheeling usage of paint - texture and surface, an example is illustrated by the painting by Ronnie Landfield
Ronnie Landfield

Ronnie Landfield is an United States abstract painter. During his early career from the mid-1960s through the 1970s his paintings were associated with Lyrical Abstraction , and he was represented by the David Whitney Gallery and the Andre Emmerich Gallery....
 entitled For William Blake. Direct drawing, calligraphic use of line, the effects of brushed, splattered, stained, squeegeed, poured, and splashed paint superficially resemble the effects seen in Abstract Expressionism
Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
 and Color Field
Color Field

Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. Inspired by European modernism and closely related to Abstract Expressionism with many of its important early proponents being among the pioneering Abstract Expressionists....
 Painting
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
. However the styles are markedly different. Setting it apart from Abstract Expressionism
Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
 and Action Painting
Action painting

Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied....
 of the 1940s and 1950s is the approach to composition and drama. As seen in Action Painting
Action painting

Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied....
 there is an emphasis on brushstrokes, high compositional drama, dynamic compositional tension. While in Lyrical Abstraction there is a sense of compositional randomness, all over composition, low key and relaxed compositional drama and an emphasis on process, repetition, and an all over sensibility. The differences with Color Field
Color Field

Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. Inspired by European modernism and closely related to Abstract Expressionism with many of its important early proponents being among the pioneering Abstract Expressionists....
 Painting
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
 are more subtle today because many of the Color Field painters with the exceptions of Morris Louis, Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly is an United States painter and sculptor associated with Hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and the minimalism school. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques that emphasize the simplicity of form....
, Paul Feeley, Thomas Downing, and Gene Davis
Gene Davis (painter)

Gene Davis was a US painter known especially for paintings of vertical stripes of color, and a member of the group of abstract painters in Washington DC during the 1960s known as the Washington Color School....
 evolved into Lyrical Abstractionists. Lyrical Abstraction shares with both Abstract Expressionism
Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
 and Color Field
Color Field

Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. Inspired by European modernism and closely related to Abstract Expressionism with many of its important early proponents being among the pioneering Abstract Expressionists....
 Painting a sense of spontaneous and immediate sensual expression, consequently distinctions between specific artists and their styles become blurred, and seemingly interchangeable as they evolve.

Abstract Expressionism
Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
 preceded Color Field painting, Lyrical Abstraction, Fluxus
Fluxus

Fluxus?a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"?is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s....
, Pop Art
Pop art

Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in UK and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of Fine Art since Pop removes the material from its context and isolates...
, Minimalism
Minimalism

Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and Minimalist music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features....
, Postminimalism
Postminimalism

Postminimalism is a term utilized in various artistic fields for work which is influenced by, or attempts to develop and go beyond, the aesthetic of minimalism....
, and the other movements of the 1960s and 1970s and it influenced the later movements that evolved. The interrelationship of/and between distinct but related styles resulted in influence that worked both ways between artists young and old, and vice-versa. During the mid-1960s in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere artists often crossed the lines between definitions and art styles. During that period - the mid 1960s through the 1970s advanced American art and contemporary art in general was at a crossroad, shattering in several directions. During the 1970s political movements and revolutionary changes in communication made these American styles international; as the art world itself became more and more international. American Lyrical Abstraction's Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an counterpart Neo-expressionism
Neo-expressionism

Neo-expressionism was a style of Modernism painting that emerged in the late 1970s and dominated the art market until the mid-1980s. Related to American Lyrical Abstraction it developed in Europe as a reaction against the conceptual and minimalism art of the 1970s....
 came to dominate the 1980s, and also developed as a response to American Pop Art
Pop art

Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in UK and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of Fine Art since Pop removes the material from its context and isolates...
 and Minimalism
Minimalism

Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and Minimalist music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features....
 and borrows heavily from American Abstract Expressionism
Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
.

Paintings



Some Lyrical Abstractionist painters

  • James Brooks
    James Brooks (painter)

    BiographyJames Brooks was an American muralist, abstract painter and winner of the Logan Medal of the arts. Brooks was a friend of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner on Eastern Long Island....
      (primarily abstract expressionism
    Abstract expressionism

    Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
    )
  • Arshile Gorky
    Arshile Gorky

    Arshile Gorky , was an Armenians-born United States painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism....
     (primarily abstract expressionism
    Abstract expressionism

    Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
     and surrealism
    Surrealism

    Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early-1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
    )
  • Adolph Gottlieb
    Adolph Gottlieb

    Adolph Gottlieb was an United States abstract expressionist Painting and sculptor....
      (primarily abstract expressionism
    Abstract expressionism

    Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
    )
  • Robert Motherwell
    Robert Motherwell

    Robert Motherwell was an Visual arts of the United States abstract expressionism Painting and printmaker. He was one of the youngest of the New York School , which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Philip Guston...
     (primarily abstract expressionism
    Abstract expressionism

    Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
    )
  • Kenzo Okada
    Kenzo Okada

    Kenzo Okada was an American painter of Japanese birth. In 1922 he entered the department of Western painting at Tokyo School of Fine Arts, called today Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, but in 1924 left for France where he studied with fellow Japanese expatriate Tsugouharu Foujita, executing paintings of urban subjects....
     (primarily abstract expressionism
    Abstract expressionism

    Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
    )
  • Mark Rothko
    Mark Rothko

    Mark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz , was a Latvian-born United States painter and printmaker. He is classified as an abstract expressionism, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted the classification as an "abstract painter"....
     (primarily abstract expressionism
    Abstract expressionism

    Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
    )
  • Joan Mitchell
    Joan Mitchell

    Joan Mitchell was a ?Second Generation? Abstract Expressionist painting. Along with Lee Krasner, Grace Hartigan, and Helen Frankenthaler she was one of her era's few female painters to gain critical and public acclaim....
      (and abstract expressionism
    Abstract expressionism

    Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
    )
  • Norman Bluhm
    Norman Bluhm

    Norman Bluhm , was an United States painter classified as an abstract expressionist, and as an Action painting. His paintings are also related to Tachisme and Lyrical Abstraction....
      (and abstract expressionism
    Abstract expressionism

    Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
    )
  • John Levee
    John Levee

    John Levee is an visual arts of the United States abstract expressionism Painting who has worked in Paris since 1949....
     (and abstract expressionism
    Abstract expressionism

    Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
    )
  • Ray Parker
    Ray Parker (painter)

    Raymond Parker was born in 1922 and he died in 1990. He was known as an Abstract expressionist, painter who also is associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction....
     (and abstract expressionism
    Abstract expressionism

    Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
    )
  • Paul Jenkins
    Paul Jenkins (United States painter)

    Paul Jenkins is a U.S. abstract expressionist Painting....
     (and abstract expressionism
    Abstract expressionism

    Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
    )
  • Cleve Gray
    Cleve Gray

    Cleve Gray was known as an Abstract expressionist painter, who was also associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction....
     (and abstract expressionism
    Abstract expressionism

    Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
    )
  • Sam Francis
    Sam Francis

    Samuel Lewis Francis was an United States Painting and printmaker. He was born in San Mateo, California, and studied botany, medicine and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley....
     (and abstract expressionism
    Abstract expressionism

    Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
     and color field painting)
  • Helen Frankenthaler
    Helen Frankenthaler

    Helen Frankenthaler is an United States post-painterly abstraction artist. Born in New York City, she was influenced by Jackson Pollock's paintings and by Clement Greenberg....
      (and abstract expressionism
    Abstract expressionism

    Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
     and color field painting)
  • Richard Diebenkorn
    Richard Diebenkorn

    Richard Clifford Diebenkorn, Jr. was a well-known 20th century Visual arts of the United States. His early work is associated with Abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s....
     (and abstract expressionism
    Abstract expressionism

    Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
     and color field painting)
  • Jules Olitski
    Jules Olitski

    Jules Olitski was an United States Abstract art Painting, printmaker, and sculptor....
     (and abstract expressionism
    Abstract expressionism

    Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
     and color field painting)
  • Kenneth Noland
    Kenneth Noland

    Kenneth Noland is an United States Abstract art Painting. He is identified today as one of the best-known contemporary United States Color field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s he was thought of as a minimalist painter....
     (and color field painting)
  • Jack Bush
    Jack Bush

    Jack Bush was a Canadian abstract expressionist painter, born in Toronto, Ontario in 1909....
     (and Color field painting)
  • Friedel Dzubas
    Friedel Dzubas

    Friedel Dzubas . He was an abstract painter....
     (and color field painting)
  • Frank Stella
    Frank Stella

    Frank Stella is an United States Painting and printmaker. He is a significant figure in minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.He was born in Malden, Massachusetts....
     ( and minimalism
    Minimalism

    Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and Minimalist music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features....
    , Hard-edge painting
    Hard-edge painting

    Hard-edge painting is painting in which abrupt transitions are found between color areas. Color areas are often of one unvarying color. Color transitions often take place along straight lines, though curvilinear edges of color areas are also common....
    , color field painting and sculpture
    Sculpture

    Sculpture is Three-dimensional space artwork created by shaping or combining hard and or plastic material, sound, and or text and or light, commonly Stone sculpture , metal, glass, or wood....
    )
  • Brice Marden
    Brice Marden

    Brice Marden , is an Contemporary art, generally described as Minimalist, although his work defies specific categorization. He is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery....
     (and minimalism
    Minimalism

    Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and Minimalist music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features....
    )
  • Ronald Davis
    Ronald Davis

    Ronald Davis , born 1937, is an American painter whose work is associated with Geometric abstraction, Abstract Illusionism, Lyrical Abstraction, Hard-edge painting, Shaped canvas painting, Color field painting, and 3D Computer Graphics....
     (and Hard-edge painting
    Hard-edge painting

    Hard-edge painting is painting in which abrupt transitions are found between color areas. Color areas are often of one unvarying color. Color transitions often take place along straight lines, though curvilinear edges of color areas are also common....
     and Abstract Illusionism
    Abstract Illusionism

    Abstract illusionism, a name coined by Louis K. Meisel, is an artistic movement that came into prominence in the United States during the mid 1970s....
    )
  • Larry Zox
    Larry Zox

    Lawrence "Larry" Zox was an United States painter and printmaker who is classified as an Abstract expressionism, Color Field painter and a Lyrical Abstractionist, although he did not readily use those categories for his work....
     (and Color field painting and Hard-edge painting
    Hard-edge painting

    Hard-edge painting is painting in which abrupt transitions are found between color areas. Color areas are often of one unvarying color. Color transitions often take place along straight lines, though curvilinear edges of color areas are also common....
    )
  • Larry Poons
    Larry Poons

    Lawrence Poons, better known as Larry Poons, is an Abstract art painter who was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1937. He studied from 1955 to 1957 at the New England Conservatory of Music, with the intent of becoming a professional musician....
     (and Hard-edge painting
    Hard-edge painting

    Hard-edge painting is painting in which abrupt transitions are found between color areas. Color areas are often of one unvarying color. Color transitions often take place along straight lines, though curvilinear edges of color areas are also common....
     and color field painting)
  • Dan Christensen
    Dan Christensen

    Dan Christensen, the United States abstract painter, was born in Cozad, Nebraska on October 6, 1942, he died in Easthampton, New York on January 20, 2007....
     (and color field painting)
  • Ronnie Landfield
    Ronnie Landfield

    Ronnie Landfield is an United States abstract painter. During his early career from the mid-1960s through the 1970s his paintings were associated with Lyrical Abstraction , and he was represented by the David Whitney Gallery and the Andre Emmerich Gallery....
      (and color field painting and Hard-edge painting
    Hard-edge painting

    Hard-edge painting is painting in which abrupt transitions are found between color areas. Color areas are often of one unvarying color. Color transitions often take place along straight lines, though curvilinear edges of color areas are also common....
    )
  • David Simpson (and Hard-edge painting
    Hard-edge painting

    Hard-edge painting is painting in which abrupt transitions are found between color areas. Color areas are often of one unvarying color. Color transitions often take place along straight lines, though curvilinear edges of color areas are also common....
    )
  • Sean Scully
    Sean Scully

    Sean Scully is an Irish-born American Painting and Printmaking who has twice been named a Turner Prize nominee. His work is in major museums worldwide....
     (and Hard-edge painting
    Hard-edge painting

    Hard-edge painting is painting in which abrupt transitions are found between color areas. Color areas are often of one unvarying color. Color transitions often take place along straight lines, though curvilinear edges of color areas are also common....
    )
  • Sam Gilliam
    Sam Gilliam

    Sam Gilliam is an African American Color field Painting associated with the Washington Color School, Abstract Expressionism and Lyrical Abstraction....
  • Howard Hodgkin
    Howard Hodgkin

    Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin Companion of Honour, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom Painting and printmaker. His work is most often associated with Abstract art....
  • Walter Darby Bannard
    Walter Darby Bannard

    Walter Darby Bannard , also known as Darby Bannard, is an United States abstract painter.Bannard attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Princeton University, where he struck up a friendship and working relationship with Frank Stella, which continued after graduation and eventuated in the extreme minimalism both artists engaged in around 1959...
     (and minimalism
    Minimalism

    Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and Minimalist music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features....
     and color field painting)
  • John Walker (painter)
    John Walker (painter)

    John Walker is an England Painting and Old master printmaker.Walker studied in Birmingham. Some of his early work was inspired by abstract expressionism and post-painterly abstraction, and often combined apparently three-dimensional shapes with "flatter" elements....
  • John Adams Griefen
  • Joan Snyder
  • Tom Holland
  • Charles Arnoldi
    Charles Arnoldi

    Charles Arnoldi, also known as Chuck Arnoldi and as Charles Arthur Arnoldi, is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker. He was born April 10, 1946 in Dayton, Ohio....
  • Ed Moses
  • Irene Rice-Pereira
    I. Rice Pereira

    Irene Rice Pereira was an American abstract artist, known for her work in the Geometric abstraction, Abstract expressionist, and Lyrical Abstraction genres and her use of the principles of the Bauhaus school....
  • Robert Natkin
    Robert Natkin

    Robert Natkin, is an United States born abstract painter whose work is associated with Abstract expressionism, Color field painting, and Lyrical Abstraction....
  • Neil Williams (and Hard-edge painting
    Hard-edge painting

    Hard-edge painting is painting in which abrupt transitions are found between color areas. Color areas are often of one unvarying color. Color transitions often take place along straight lines, though curvilinear edges of color areas are also common....
    )
  • David Budd (see nga links below)
  • John Seery
    John Seery

    John Seery is an American artist who is associated with the Lyrical Abstraction movement. He was born in Maspeth, New York, was raised in Flushing, Queens and as a teen, moved to Cincinnati, Ohio....
     (see nga link below)
  • Peter Young (artist)
    Peter Young (artist)

    Peter Young, is an United States painter who was born in Pittsburgh, Pa, January 2, 1940. He is primarily known for his abstract paintings that have been widely exhibited in the United States and in Europe since the 1960s....
     (see nga links below)
  • Frank Bowling
  • Al Loving
  • Natvar Bhavsar
    Natvar Bhavsar

    Natvar Bhavsar is an India artist, based in Soho, New York City, noted as an abstract expressionist and color field artist. Bhavsar's paintings appear in more than 800 private and public collections, including the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Sol...
  • Alan Shields
  • John Hoyland
    John Hoyland

    John Hoyland is a United Kingdom artist based in London. He is one of the country's leading abstract painters....
  • Peter Reginato
    Peter Reginato

    Peter Reginato is an American abstract sculptor. Reginato grew up in the hills outside of Oakland, California and he attended the San Francisco Art Institute....
     (and sculpture
    Sculpture

    Sculpture is Three-dimensional space artwork created by shaping or combining hard and or plastic material, sound, and or text and or light, commonly Stone sculpture , metal, glass, or wood....
    )
  • David Diao (and Hard-edge painting
    Hard-edge painting

    Hard-edge painting is painting in which abrupt transitions are found between color areas. Color areas are often of one unvarying color. Color transitions often take place along straight lines, though curvilinear edges of color areas are also common....
    )
  • Kenneth Showell
  • Thornton Willis
  • Joanna Pousette-Dart
  • David Novros muralist (and minimalism
    Minimalism

    Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and Minimalist music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features....
    )
  • Peter Bradley
  • Melissa Meyer
  • Carol Sutton
  • Frances Barth
  • Carlos Villa
  • Carol Haerer
  • Phillip Wofford
  • Stanley Boxer
  • Joyce Weinstein
  • Ralph Humphrey
  • William Pettet
  • Edward Avedisian
    Edward Avedisian

    Edward Avedisian was an American abstract painter who came into prominence during the 1960s. His work was initially associated with Color field painting and in the late 1960s with Lyrical Abstraction....
  • Jack Whitten
  • Lee Lozano
  • Pat Lipsky
    Pat Lipsky

    Pat Lipsky is an American painter associated with Lyrical Abstraction, Color Field, and Geometric abstraction....
  • Gary Stephan
  • Shirley Smith
  • Ed Ruda
  • David R. Prentice
    David R. Prentice

    David R. Prentice is an United States artist.Prentice was born in Hartford, Connecticut and studied at the Art School of the University of Hartford from 1962 to 1964, after which he worked as a studio assistant to Jasper Johns, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Alexander Liberman and Malcolm Morley....
  • Harvey Quaytman
  • Lawrence Stafford
  • Alan Cote
  • Doug Ohlson
  • Jake Berthot
  • Robert Duran
  • Nancy Graves
    Nancy Graves

    Nancy Graves was an United States sculpture, Painting, printmaker, and sometime-filmmaker known for her focus on natural phenomena like camels or maps of the moon....
     (and sculpture
    Sculpture

    Sculpture is Three-dimensional space artwork created by shaping or combining hard and or plastic material, sound, and or text and or light, commonly Stone sculpture , metal, glass, or wood....
    )
  • Joseph Drapell
  • Carl Gliko
  • Joe Haske
  • Francine Tint
  • Jan Meyer
    Jan Meyer

    Jan Meyer was a Netherlands Painting....
  • Marilyn Kirsch
  • Richard Saba


Selected early references

  • Landfield, Ronnie, In The Late Sixties, 1993-95, and other writings - various published and unpublished essays, reviews, lectures, statements and brief descriptives at .
  • Robbins, Daniel. Larry Poons: Creation of the Complex Surface, Exhibition Catalogue, Salander/O'Reilly Galleries, pp. 9-19, 1990.
  • Zinsser, John. Larry Poons, an interview reprinted from Journal of Contemporary Art, Fall/Winter 1989, vol.2.2 pp. 28-38. Exhibition Catalogue, Salander/O'Reilly Galleries, pp. 20-24, 1990.
  • Peter Schjeldahl
    Peter Schjeldahl

    Peter Schjeldahl, , is an United States art critic, poet, and educator.Schjeldahl was born in Fargo, North Dakota, North Dakota. He grew up in small towns throughout Minnesota, and attended Carleton College and The New School....
    . New Abstract Painting: A Variety of Feelings, Exhibition review, "Continuing Abstraction ", The Whitney Downtown Branch, 55 Water St. NYC. The New York Times
    The New York Times

    The New York Times is an American daily newspaper published in New York City. The largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States, "The Gray Lady"?named for its staid appearance and style?is regarded as a national newspaper of record....
    , October 13, 1974.
  • Carmean, E.A. Toward Color and Field, Exhibition Catalogue, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, 1971.
  • Henning, Edward B. Color & Field, Art International May 1971: 46-50.
  • Tucker, Marcia. The Structure of Color, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art
    Whitney Museum of American Art

    The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", harbors one of the most important Collection of 20th century United States art....
    , NYC, 1971.
  • Ratcliff, Carter. Painterly vs. Painted, Art News Annual XXXVII, Thomas B. Hess, and John Ashberry, eds.1971, pp..129-147.
  • Prokopoff, Stephen. Two Generations of Color Painting, Exhibition Catalogue, Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art, 1971.
  • Lyrical Abstraction
    Lyrical Abstraction

    Lyrical Abstraction refers to two related but distinctly separate movements in Post-war Modernist painting.European Lyrical Abstraction is an art movement born in Paris after World War II....
    , Exhibition Catalogue, Whitney Museum of American Art
    Whitney Museum of American Art

    The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", harbors one of the most important Collection of 20th century United States art....
    , NYC, 1971.
  • Sharp, Willoughby. Points of View, A taped conversation with four painters," Ronnie Landfield
    Ronnie Landfield

    Ronnie Landfield is an United States abstract painter. During his early career from the mid-1960s through the 1970s his paintings were associated with Lyrical Abstraction , and he was represented by the David Whitney Gallery and the Andre Emmerich Gallery....
    , Brice Marden
    Brice Marden

    Brice Marden , is an Contemporary art, generally described as Minimalist, although his work defies specific categorization. He is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery....
    , Larry Poons and John Walker (painter)
    John Walker (painter)

    John Walker is an England Painting and Old master printmaker.Walker studied in Birmingham. Some of his early work was inspired by abstract expressionism and post-painterly abstraction, and often combined apparently three-dimensional shapes with "flatter" elements....
    , Arts, v. 45, n.3. December 1970, pp.41-.
  • Lyrical Abstraction
    Lyrical Abstraction

    Lyrical Abstraction refers to two related but distinctly separate movements in Post-war Modernist painting.European Lyrical Abstraction is an art movement born in Paris after World War II....
    , Exhibition Catalogue, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Conn. 1970.
  • Domingo, Willis. Color Abstractionism: A Survey of Recent American Painting, Arts, v. 45.n.3, December 1970, pp.34-40.
  • Channin, Richard. New Directions in Painterly Abstraction, Art International, Sept. 1970; pp.62-64.
  • Davis, Douglas. The New Color Painters, Newsweek
    Newsweek

    Newsweek is an United States weekly newsmagazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally....
     4 May 1970: pp.84-85.
  • Ashton, Dore. Young Abstract Painters: Right On! Arts v. 44, n. 4, February, 1970, pp. 31-35.
  • Aldrich, Larry. Young Lyrical Painters, Art in America
    Art in America

    Art in America is an illustrated monthly magazine published since 1913. The magazine covers the visual art world, both in the United States and abroad, with a concentration on New York City and contemporary art fairs....
    , v.57, n6, November-December 1969, pp.104-113.
  • Ratcliff, Carter. The New Informalists, Art News, v. 68, n. 8, December 1969, p.72.
  • Davis, Douglas M. This Is the Loose-Paint Generation, The National Observer 4 Aug. 1969: p.20
  • Martin, Ann Ray, and Howard Junker. The New Art: It's Way, Way Out, Newsweek
    Newsweek

    Newsweek is an United States weekly newsmagazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally....
     29 July 1968: pp.3,55-63.


See also

  • abstract expressionism
    Abstract expressionism

    Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
  • color field painting
  • hard-edge painting
    Hard-edge painting

    Hard-edge painting is painting in which abrupt transitions are found between color areas. Color areas are often of one unvarying color. Color transitions often take place along straight lines, though curvilinear edges of color areas are also common....
  • Post-painterly abstraction
    Post-painterly Abstraction

    Post-painterly Abstraction is a term created by art critic Clement Greenberg as the title for an exhibit he curated for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1964, which subsequently travelled to the Walker Art Center and the Art Museum of Toronto ....
  • Tachisme
    Tachisme

    Tachisme was a France style of abstract painting in the 1940s and 1950s. It is often considered to be the European equivalent to abstract expressionism....
  • COBRA (avant-garde movement)
    COBRA (avant-garde movement)

    COBRA was a European avant-garde art movement active from 1949 to 1952. The name was coined in 1948 by Christian Dotremont from the initials of the members' home cities: Copenhagen , Brussels , Amsterdam ....
  • Formalism (art)
    Formalism (art)

    In history of art, formalism is the concept that a work of art's artistic merit is entirely determined by its form--the way it is made, its purely visual aspects, and its medium....
  • Western painting
    Western painting

    The history of Western painting represents a continuous, though disrupted, tradition from classical antiquity. Until the mid 19th century it was primarily concerned with Representational art and Classical antiquity modes of production, after which time more Modern art, Abstract art and Conceptual art forms gained favor....
  • History of painting
    History of painting

    The history of painting reaches back in time to artifacts from pre-historic humans, and spans all cultures, that represents a continuous, though disrupted, tradition from Antiquity....


Bibliography

Flight lyric, Paris 1945–1956, texts Patrick-Gilles Persin, Michel and Pierre Descargues Ragon, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris and Skira, Milan, 2006, 280 p. ( ISBN 8876246797 ).

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